Baker Botts L.L.P.

The international arbitration practice at Baker Botts L.L.P. is heralded as the ‘best one in investment international arbitration’, with extensive experience in headline-grabbing, complex arbitrations worldwide. The team has particular expertise in arbitrations including energy, intellectual property, construction, and contractual disputes, acting on complex US seated and international arbitrations. New York-based Andrew Behrman heads the practice that recently represented the Republic of Peru in dismissing a 20-year-dispute and including $1 billion in damages. In Washington DC, Jennifer Haworth McCandless is key to the practice, along with María Carolina Durán. McCandless takes a ’meticulous, hands-on approach to every aspect of a case’, while Durán has ‘remarkably quick litigation reflexes that allow her to pivot and handle any twist and turn that a case may present’. In Houston, Michael Goldberg is of note, as well as Ben Love, who joined the Houston office from Boies Schiller Flexner LLP in January 2025.